These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.
5. Multidetector row computed tomography for identification of left atrial appendage filling defects in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation for treatment of atrial fibrillation: comparison with transesophageal echocardiography. Patel A, Au E, Donegan K, Kim RJ, Lin FY, Stein KM, Markowitz SM, Iwai S, Weinsaft JW, Min JK, Lerman BB. Heart Rhythm; 2008 Feb; 5(2):253-60. PubMed ID: 18242550 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
7. Left atrial appendage emptying fraction assessed by a feature-tracking echocardiographic method is a determinant of thrombus in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Iwama M, Kawasaki M, Tanaka R, Ono K, Watanabe T, Hirose T, Nagaya M, Noda T, Watanabe S, Minatoguchi S. J Cardiol; 2012 May; 59(3):329-36. PubMed ID: 22342529 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
9. Left atrial appendage filling defects identified by multidetector computed tomography in patients undergoing radiofrequency pulmonary vein antral isolation: a comparison with transesophageal echocardiography. Kim YY, Klein AL, Halliburton SS, Popovic ZB, Kuzmiak SA, Sola S, Garcia MJ, Schoenhagen P, Natale A, Desai MY. Am Heart J; 2007 Dec; 154(6):1199-205. PubMed ID: 18035095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
10. External validation of a novel transthoracic echocardiographic tool in predicting left atrial appendage thrombus formation in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Doukky R, Khandelwal A, Garcia-Sayan E, Gage H. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging; 2013 Sep; 14(9):876-81. PubMed ID: 23291395 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
11. Contrast-enhanced tissue Doppler imaging of the left atrial appendage is a new quantitative measure of spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in atrial fibrillation. Donal E, Sallach JA, Murray RD, Drinko JK, Jasper SE, Thomas JD, Klein AL. Eur J Echocardiogr; 2008 Jan; 9(1):5-11. PubMed ID: 17137842 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
17. [Influence of age of patients with atrial fibrillation on left atrium function]. Zapolski T, Wysokiński A. Wiad Lek; 2006 Jan; 59(5-6):346-51. PubMed ID: 17017480 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
18. A computer-aided diagnostic algorithm improves the accuracy of transesophageal echocardiography for left atrial thrombi: a single-center prospective study. Sun L, Li Y, Zhang YT, Shen JX, Xue FH, Cheng HD, Qu XF. J Ultrasound Med; 2014 Jan; 33(1):83-91. PubMed ID: 24371102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
19. Transesophageal echocardiographic assessment of right atrial appendage anatomy and function: comparison with the left atrial appendage and implications for local thrombus formation. Subramaniam B, Riley MF, Panzica PJ, Manning WJ. J Am Soc Echocardiogr; 2006 Apr; 19(4):429-33. PubMed ID: 16581482 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]